H20 | AMD Phenom II C3 | Dragon's Revenge | Ultimate Thread

[Titan7171]

First off... Sorry for the double post.



I know Simon didn't ask for this, but I agree with you Zeus...
There are a whole lot of options that can give wildly varying results on the Heaven Bench...

I've never used it before, but like I said earlier, I've been playing with it since I got off of work.

I came up with these Standard settings that everyone may want to use. I chose them to be as fair as possible for folks who might not have the best Video Cards/Monitors...
(BTW: beta, now I see why your numbers looked so wierd 8xAA and 16x AF )

Suggested Standard Settings:


The other good thing about these settings is that it won't take too long to run (with decent gear) and it still looks 1/2 way decent.

For folks that have 58xx (DX11) cards, feel free to change that option (I just don't have it )

This is just a suggestion for a standard, I'm not trying to be bossy...

Anyway, heres my result @ these settings:

Im down to run any settings up to 1680x1050......I dont think theres any request that cold stop me from benching.....especaially not a setting.

[Daveburt714]

Im down to run any settings up to 1680x1050......I dont think theres any request that cold stop me from benching.....especaially not a setting.

Your 1st bench was the reason I suggested 1280x1024 Titan....
You have that WICKED Video Card and what appears to be a cheezy monitor.

You need to get your priorities straight bro!

Lub ya man!

[Titan7171]

Your 1st bench was the reason I suggested 1280x1024 Titan....
You have that WICKED Video Card and what appears to be a cheezy monitor.

You need to get your priorities straight bro!

Lub ya man!

soon man soon........every time I think Im ready to upgrade the monitor I get something that acually is a performance upgrade instead.

Just in preperation for Thuban I bought (so far)

HIS 5970...............................$750
Enermax Evo Galaxy 1250........ $175
Windows 7 64bit Home Premium $130

thats only the last 4 weeks

Still have to buy

mobo$$$
cpu$$$
4gigs ddr3$$$

I dont even want to think about it

And you worried about my screen

[Grinder]

I feel your pain Titan, just bought a WD Caviar Black 2TB and Windows 7 64 bit home premium family pack (and office as well), and I'm still running a 4850 and would like to replace my c3 with a more willing stepping, or go straight to thuban. And if I upgrade my video card, especially for a crossfire setup or a high end card, I'll likely end up needing a new power supply as well. And then there's that pesky waterblock. I had hoped there might be vid cards at the end of chapter 2, but so many others had great results!

But we do it because we love it. Now if only our wives and girlfriends had the same passion for hardware

BTW, installed everything except the latest catalyst drivers before I left for work this morning (and was tempted to call in sick ) so I should finally get at some benches tonight. I don't care if I don't have the best stuff, I just wanna play!

[charged3800z24]

Hey everyone, My MSI 890 board is up and running. I made a JSPI1 cable and programmed the FlashROM from another PC that had a LPT port.

[Grinder]

Hey everyone, My MSI 890 board is up and running. I made a JSPI1 cable and programmed the FlashROM from another PC that had a LPT port.

That must have been a really nice eureka moment. Congrats on raising the dead!

[charged3800z24]

Thanks guy's, and yes it was an exciting moment Below is what i did.

==Begin

First, I would like to thank the owner of this site, which I got my connection settings from. http://rayer.ic.cz/elektro/spipgm.htm
I also need to thank the users on the thread here in this forum for there post, Jack T.N. and Mamluk here http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=133578.0
I used the following ,
I made my flash drive boot ready using HP's USB format tool. I used boot files from a startup up disk I made from winxp when formating the floppy to boot. The I browsed to this floppy disk as the source for my boot file when formatting my flash drive. I downloaded SPIPGM.zip from http://www.volny.cz/rayer/programm/programe.htm and extracted the files to the flash drive. I also downloaded and extracted CWSDPMI6.ZIP from the same site ( you will need to scroll to find the download links, the CWSDPMI6.ZIP was at the top and the SPIPGM.zip was near the bottom). I have all files on the root of the flash drive, none are in folders. I copied my bios file I wanted to flash with, also to the root of the flsah drive. I plugged in a power supply to my crippled board but did not power it on (this supply's standby power to the board, There is no need to power the system on, just use a volt meter to verify 3.3v on pin 1 on the JSPI1 or pin 8 on the FlashROM). I then hooked my home-made JSPI1 cable to the JSPI1 connector on the bad board. See image below,


The connections were
LPT Pin --to--> JSPI1 Pin
10 (150 ohm RES) 3
9 (150 ohm RES) 4
8 (150 ohm RES) 6
7 (150 ohm RES) 5
I then powered on my good PC that had the LPT port and did a boot from my flash drive. I typed the following at the command prompt

CWSDPMI

SPIPGM /u

SPIPGM /e

SPIPGM /p A7642AMS.120 (your bios file here)

The program did not know the FlashROM and I was prompter to enter the size, i enter the 2048. I then disconnected the cable and powered on the bad board. It came right up.

===END

[theoldtimer]

Good job. I’ve been looking for a dancing partner for quite a while now.

I know you have already had trouble with a bad bios flash but I recommend you go straight to bios version 1.2. I've been getting better memory speed and timings than I had in bios version 1.0.

BTW I think it would be very helpful to others that are having this same problem (bad bios flash) if you would start a thread describing the process of building and using the JSPI1 cable. I know I would be interested in gaining this knowledge.

[charged3800z24]

I actually did use 1.2, i had a typo above in my post. It was a generic bios file name in my instructions. I brought the board to work with me to flash it, since I have no running systems with LPT ports. I'll throw the board in tonight if i can, i have to work on the mower tonight also.

[charged3800z24]

BTW I think it would be very helpful to others that are having this same problem (bad bios flash) if you would start a thread describing the process of building and using the JSPI1 cable. I know I would be interested in gaining this knowledge.

I missed this part of your post. I might do this. i need to get my brain working and my typing skills together. i am pretty bad at write ups It was actually very easy once i had the cable made.